Maljevac worked for communications engineering agency Directa and Legebitra, a LGBTNGO.[1] During his tenure as head of Legebitra from 2007 to 2017 the organisation became the largest LGBT group in Slovenia.[1][5] He was the Slovenian representative in the EU Network group of ILGA-Europe in 2006 and president of IGLYO from 2007 to 2009.[1][6] He and Nika Kovač founded the Inštitut 8. marec in 2016.[3][4] He was head of the monitoring, awareness-raising and prevention department at the Advocate of the Principle of Equality (Zagovornik načela enakosti) from 2017 to 2018.[1] He has also worked with the Ministry of Health, The Peace Institute, and the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities on several projects.[1] Maljevac was also editor-in-chief of the Narobe magazine.[1][3] He has also been an academic and co-authored several scientific papers.[1]
Following the 2022 Slovenian parliamentary election The Left became a junior partner in the government of Prime MinisterRobert Golob. Maljevac was a candidate to be Minister of Labor, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities but the post was instead given to Luka Mesec.[6][11] It had been intended that Mesec would head the newly created Ministry for a Solidary Future but this was abandoned after the far-right Slovenian Democratic Party threatened to submit the creation of the new ministry to a national referendum.[12] Maljevac was instead appointed State Secretary with responsibility for equal opportunities, family, disabled persons, older people and deinstitutionalisation at the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities.[1][13] In January 2023 he was promoted to Minister of Solidarity-Based Future of Slovenia.[14][15]
Personal life
Maljevac lives with his partner, academic Roman Kuhar, in Šenčur.[3][4]